Imetame and EnP won first-hand, seven blocks onshore, in the Espírito Santo Basin, in the Permanent Offer auction, today December 04th

The consortium of oil companies Imemate and EnP won seven onshore blocks (ES-T-305, ES-T-409, ES-T-429, ES-T-466, ES-T-486A, ES-T-517 and ES-T-527) in the Espírito Santo Basin, in the Permanent Offer auction that is taking place today (4/12), in Rio de Janeiro. Oil company Shell won this morning (04/12) an offshore oil block in the Campos Basin

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The oil companies disbursed R$ 356,1 thousand for the seven blocks in Espírito Santo. Imetame being the operator of the consortium, with a 50% stake, while EnP will have the remaining share.

So far, no other oil company or consortium has bid for onshore blocks in the Espírito Santo onshore basin.

In the second Permanent Offer Cycle, 14 areas of exploratory oil blocks are being offered in nine basins: Santos, Espírito Santo, Campos, Paraná, Amazonas, Recôncavo, Sergipe-Alagoas, Potiguar and Tucano.

A Agency National Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels - ANP, is offering two sectors of areas with marginal accumulations of the Solimões and Recôncavo basins. In all, 63 companies are registered in the auction.

About Permanent Offer - ANP

In the Permanent Offer system, the ANP offers some specific types of areas. These are fields that have been returned or are in the process of being returned and exploratory blocks offered in previous tenders and not awarded.

New exploratory oil blocks under study at the agency are also part of the event. Only areas in the pre-salt, strategic or located on the Continental Shelf beyond 200 nautical miles are left out.

Bento Albuquerque, Minister of Mines and Energy, reinforced the federal government's intention to include pre-salt oil exploration areas in this type of event in the near future.